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INVALIDS BED.

No. 595,514. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT, @FFICE.

STEPHEN o. ATTKISSON,OF SALEM, INDIANA, AssIeNon or SEVEN-EIGHTHS TODAISY ATTKISSON, or SAME PLACE.

INVALIDS BED.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,514, datedDecember 14, 1897.

Application filed April 10, 1897. Serial No. 631,522. (No model.)

State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Invalids Bed, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an invalids bed, by which the invalid may be restedsteadily on a bed of usual construction or raised from the bed withoutdisturbing the comfort of the invalid or of exposing the invalid touneven temperatures.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of my invention, whilethe claim defines the actual scope of the conception.-

Referenceis to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

' Figure 1 is a perspective View of the invention. Fig. 2 is across-section thereof, and Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the head-restfor the invalids bed.

The invention is adapted to be used in connection with anordinarybedstead; and it consists in a rectangular frame 3, the lengthof which should be approximately equal to the length of the bed and thewidth of which may be any to suit the convenience of the patient. At thehead of the frame 3 a headframe 4 is pivoted. The head-frame 4 isprovided with buttons, to which a canvas sheet 5 may be removablyconnected. This forms a head-rest for the patient or it may serve tohold a pillow. The frame 4 is held at various inclinations by means ofarms 6, respectively engaging ratchet-bars 7, carried at the inner faces'of the sides of the frame 3 near the head thereof.

The outer face of each side of the frame 3 is provided at each end witha bar 8, said bars being slidable in keepers 9, carried by the frame 3,as indicated in Fig. 1. The bars 8 are movable in and out of prominentposition, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, and serve ashandles for facilitating the movement of the frame in the manner of astretcher.

The sides of the frame 3 are provided on their outer face with hooks 10,respectively engaging eyelets 11 in a canvas sheet 12,

'neath the opening 22. sired to perform this operation, a strip 23, of95 which forms the bottom of the invalids bed. The sheet 12 isremovable, if desired, and by its flexible qualities serves to easilysupport the patient.

The frame 3 is raised and lowered on and off the bed proper by means ofa line 13, attached to a winding-drum 14, held off the bed and on astand 15. The line 13 coacts with a block 16 and fall 17. The fall 17 isattached to a ring 18, and the block 16 is held in the ceiling of theapartment. The ring 18 has a number of lines 19 attached thereto. Thelines 19 are preferably six in number and are arranged three for eachside rail of the frame 3. If desired, the number and arrangement of thelines 19 may be varied, it being only essential that the frame be evenlysupported when raised by the block and fall.

To prevent the sides of the frame from buckling under the pressure ofthe lines 19 and to hold the canvas sheet 12 taut over the frame, Iprovide-an arched brace or knee 20, that is provided with notches in itsends, which notches respectively receive the sides of the frame 3, andare removably held thereto by swinging hooks 21, carried on the frameand engaging eyes on the knee. The knee or brace 20 arches up over thesheet 12, so that the patient may lie easily beneath the knee. When thepatient is to be placed in or displaced from the bed, the knee may beremoved to facilitate this operation. The lines 19 may be attached tothe frame 3 by spring snap-hooks arranged to enter eyes on the frame orby an oblong ring screwed into the frame. If desired, any other meansmay also be used for this purpose.

The sheet 12 has an opening 22 therein, through which the patient mayevacuate when the frame 3 is used. When it is desired that this be done,the frame 3 is raised and a bed-pan or'other receptacle placed be-Should it not be de- IOO ment of my invention may be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope thereof. Hence I consider myselfentitled to all such variations as come within the scope of the claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- An invalids bed having a frame, hooks secured to theouter faces of the side rails of said frame, a cloth sheet stretchedbetween the lower edges of the frame and having eyelets attached to thehooks thereof, the cloth sheet having an opening therein, a strip ofcloth laid against the sheet to close the opening therein and havingeyelets receiving the hooks of the frame, a hoisting apparatus inconnection with the frame to support the same horizontally, a kneeengaging the side rails of the frame and extending upward over the clothsheet, a head-frame pivoted to the side rails of the frame adjacent toone end of the frame, and an arm pivoted to the headframe and capable ofengaging with the main frame to hold the head-frame at variousinclinations.

STEPHEN C. ATTKISSON.

WVitnesses:

W. L. WELLER, J r., BENSON C. KERR.

